https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-declares-mistrial-after-jury-deadlocks-lawsuit-filed-109880382

Does this one work?

I typed a reply about how bad actors will use reasonable arguments to get their way, so we’d need genuine evidence

my comment didn’t send properly tho and i got an error message, so if you see me commenting twice, sorry

Making little figures out of clay

Undertale, definitely. FFX I was really attached to Auron. The Ace Attorney series? I get attached to characters so I feel like those are the tip of the iceberg.

Slime Rancher? Or a puzzle game like The Gardens Between? You fight in Going Under, but I don’t remember it being bloody.

Not having quick easy saves whenever it would be easy to do. There are times when it can’t be implemented for a good reason (a bad reason would be to make the game harder. sure ok but that’s such a boring way to do that) and it’s fine but i still might quit playing the game forever when i realize my cat launching herself on the keyboard somehow closed all my programs. there goes that whole pain in the ass boss fight.

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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1194998452/skiplagging-airfare-flying-skiplagged-american-airlines

This is the best source i found about it. It sounds like it’s legal but they are likely to cancel your return flight.

The Longest Journey was my favorite as a kid. Point and click adventure about a young art student in the future who keeps teleporting to a fantasy world.

I think the standard advice is to read as part of a wind down routine before bed, but I always found myself still reading an hour before I needed to get up. Or forcing myself to bed and still being awake thinking about the book hours later. Lots of people get audio books for their commute or bring a book on the bus. Unfortunately, my solution was to leave a book by the toilet. Regular but necessarily limited time.

What’s fun with indie games and playing on a delay is that when I want to play a new game and grab something in my price range off my wishlist, I often have no idea what the game is or why past me thought I’d want to play it. Time wipes out any spoilers I got reading about it or watching someone play it years ago.

If they’re mean to waiters, cashiers, janitors, etc.

Setting aside politics for a second, their size could prematurely erase any identity kbin was going to develop.

I also think we need better mod tools before federating with big, active communities. And the ability to have someone take over magazines without active mods, so the little magazines getting by without them don’t just become spam havens for shitheads. Some of that should get added in the next big update.

It’s tough! The thought of non-existence used to terrify me. For years I clung to religious beliefs, which also terrified me. Eternal torture for nonbelief? Even worse than non-existence! If the religion I was taught was wrong, which was right?

My brain would latch onto these questions and repeat in circles so I couldn’t sleep. I learned to distract myself with made up bedtime stories. I picked up rituals like prayer that I held onto for long after I stopped believing. The ritual was soothing. Slowly, that fear faded and I don’t pray anymore . I don’t fear a hell now, so it’s non-existence, like sleep, which doesn’t feel as frightening as it used to. Since they’s no reason and no purpose to anything, I don’t have to sacrifice myself to fit some role. There’s no great work I can do that will change this.

I’m 40 and sitting here watching a friend play a videogame and petting my cat. I will hang out with my neice this week and play DnD on the weekend and the lack of meaning or purpose - this emptiness - relaxes me.

What I mean is - take it slow. Don’t completely ignore the fear, but if it’s too much, find distractions ro reduce the pain. You wont come to the same conclusions I did, but if you try to take it slow, you might get to your own peace eventually. Maybe you’ll decide that doing good things brings you peace, or building a home you love or something.

Practice slowly breathing, find distractions that genuinely work for you, and think about these things at times when you’re in an okay place - not the dead if night when they’re huge. If that doesn’t work or it’s never small enough to handle, try therapy.

I hope you figure it out.

I wish I’d gotten help for my anxiety disorder while I had access to health insurance in my early 20’s.

still love chewing gum

My aunt’s husband died suddenly and i was initially sad even though we weren’t pals, but when she was going through his papers she found out he was a chronic liar and con artist. he would claim to own a building and be getting money from tenants and it turned out he did not own that building- that kind of thing. he was also cheating. he lied about stuff that didn’t even matter, too. so i was glad he passed away before he screwed up my aunt’s life more than he did.

Rakuen was the most recent game I played that did that for me

nitter.net/sphecidwasp/status/1498522928165576707 maybe?

I didn’t see it in theaters, iirc, but I wore out the VHS tape as a kid.